Thomas Rhodes Rockwell (born March 12, 1933) (son of the American artist, Norman Rockwell) is the author of a number of books for young readers. He was the recipient of the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Sequoyah Award for How to Eat Fried Worms, which was made into a TV movie in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Rockwell grew up in Arlington, Vermont. His early mentors were a pair of local farmers, Jim and Clara Edgarton, local farmers, on whose farm he worked gathering hay.